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Why didn't you volunteer back then for the FSA

Many decent people are attracted by the emancipatory, social revolutionary agenda of the Rojava project (the FSA has no discernable political agenda at all, besides being against Assad).

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> What is Rojava? Direct democracy, women's empowerment, economy of cooperatives, and political plurality: these are the principles that the political movement in Rojava is seeking towards. In the middle of a war on all sides and a multi-party conflict, these people are undertaking a grand political experiment that has deep implications for the future if they succeed.

I am in the lucky position that I can make quite some contribution for a more enlightened and humanist (and thus not least: more secular) Middle East from Germany, dear -ll--ll-. Including the political fight against its current most perfidous enemies, namely all those Turkish politicians (prominent among them a certain Mr. Erdogan) who would happily seek to kill every progress in Middle East societies using islamist barbarism a tool, if only it serves to kill any Kurdish assertiveness on the way.

Although of course the revolutionary romanticism of shooting an assault rifle from the cover of a trench side by side with Leyla Imret has its attractions, too.

I know how to shoot, I served in the alpine special forces of the German army. My mountain warfare skills should almost make me a Kurd, shouldn't they?

Anyway, my professional work here is legal, media and politics, and I definitely can do much good for Rojava from here. An appointment in two hours is the next event to do so.

shooing away religion and trying to tuck it quietly into only the private sphere has never worked in religious societies

With all due respect, secularism and making religion a private affair works great almost everywhere on the planet. The only exception is a certain region. And even in that region modern, secular states like Turkey, Israel, Tunesia demonstrate that it works fine.

How does volunteering for Rojava practically work? First, concerning logistics? Second, can you give (or recommend where to get) a brief impression what volunteer life in Rojava is like, both in military and civilian occupation?